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(ftf ;f: ?S ... !' f ..." . , . . . " ' - - J This Argus o'er the people's rights, No soothing1 strains of Maia's son, Doth an eternal vigil keep - Can lull its hundred eves to sleep" . v Vol. XVII. GOUDSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY17. 19Q0. NO 146 - " . . . . " f I - 1 , TTT5gg IN MEMO RI AM.. BY NIXON P. CLIKGHAM. Land of the South! embalmed in song That echoes down the years, Above thy dead, to day, we Htrew The victor Bay and burial Yew, To tell thy fame in tears: For tho' thy starry Cross went down Amid the wrathful light, Upon its shining wreck we read How hero hearts can break and bleed Before they yield the right. Land of the South! the sweet May -time That woes thy buds and blooms, Doth in its fight adown the Spring Its rosy grrland freely bring To wreath thy place of tombs, "Where lowly winds like mourners bend To whisper to the brave, "Whose quiet brows; tho' cold beneath, Are circled with the Laurel's wreath That sparkles from the grave. Land of the South! hy blades no more Leap out in hands of steel. But in their" rust the record sleeps, That jealous Honocpteadfast keeps, How Southrons scjrn to kneel; And on thy deeds shall Romance love ' To rear her dazzling fane And pilgrims come to haunt the Urns Where Sorrow broods and Valor turnu To muse upon thy slain. Land of the South! the stars that burst Like blossoms from your sky, Reflect in each a hero's shade Whose kaightly deeds shall only fade When t me itself snail die; And future Bards shall sweetly wake To thee their chosen lyre, And woman's lips shall hymn the praise To childish cars in tender lays Of Ftdlen Southern sire. Land of the South! a Bayard keeps All mute his marble rest, Within each grave whcsa storied clay Lies in Its winding sheet of grey Upon thy mother breast, And now we bring our floral gifts, And braids of Immortelle, As tribute to the courtly dead Who followed where thy banner led, And with that banner fell. Land of the Smth.! thy squadrons rush Down in the fray no more, 'Mid rifle flash and sabre stroke And scenes of blood and battle smoke, As in the days of yore, But ah! the lightning track they left Is pa ved with Spartan dust, And legends linger where they rode, That gild the page of Valor's Code, Of how they kept th air trust. Land of the South! a halo gleams Upon thy midnight gloom, And 'round thy broken shrine it throws A wreath of light that const nt glows About the martyr's tomb, And from thy darkest ruins spring, Where life and hope are dumb, Traditions that shall live in song That other Minstrel shall prolong In days that are to come. Land of the South! about thy wrecks The fit es of Courage play,; And Glory gathers from thy grief The grandest gleanings in his sheaf To garner them for aye; For when the last throb of thy drums Grow faint upon the air, Immortals bore on wings of flame The echo up the steeps of Fame And left it living there. Land of the Soufi ! no martial muse A purer theme shall teach, Than how thy colors swift and far Swept o'er the purple field of war And lit the deadly breach: And Vandal pen can ne'er profane, Or blight with venom stroke, A single star that hung thereon And shone till every hope was gone To dare the despot's yoke. Goldsboro Messenger, May 10, 1879, A Powder Mill Explosion. Removes everything in sight: so do drastic miueral pills, but both are mighty dangerous. Don't dynamite the delicate ma chinery of your body with calos mel. croton oil or aloes pills, when Dr. King's New Life Pills. 1- wnicn are genue as a summer breezg, do the work perfectly. Cures headache, Constipation. Only 25c at J. H. Hill & Son's drug store Mexican Liver Pills cure all liver Ills. Price,'5c. MEMORIAL DAY The Host Populous Observance of the Day Goldsboro lias Ever Seen. The Daughters of the Confederacy Have Added Additional Interest to the Hal lowed Occasion Amtnjs all Classes of Oar People. Ever true to the public spirit hat has made her the besj town in the State Goldsboro did herself proud May lOib, in the imposing observance her people as au en tire community accorded Confed erate Memorial Day,, and the les son thus imparted to the young will not fail to leave an impress upon their plastic minds that will make for their elevation in refined sentiments, patriotic im pulses and higher appreciation of the prerogatives of Southern ineage and citizenship. At 5 o'clock and before that hour the court house square, and the street in front was thronged with. all classes and ages of our citizen?, besides the various organizations the Mili tary, the Confederate Veterans, the Graded School children, the Daughters of the Confederacy in carriages, and the K. of P. Cornet Band, which at the ap pointed hour led the procession to the cemetery, under the es cort of Dr. W. H. H. Cobb, chief marsba1, and his corps of effi cient assistants. At the cemetsry the decora tions around the hallowed Con federate squareunder the inde fatigable supervision of Mrs. T. H. Bain, who never tires in her active devotion to the Confed erate cause, were imposing and beautiful, and here the great throngs of people the largest in the history of the day, decor ously gathered for participation in the sacred ceremonies A epecitl choir of the Daught era of the Confederacy, supported by a number of leading male voices, opened the services with the Na tional anthem "America," afte. which Rev. W. C. Newton, pastor of the Goldsboro Baptist church, offered an exquisitely beautiful and tenderly appropriate prayer, wh'ch found an echo in every heart of his hearers and met with a softly whispered amen from ev ery soul. This was followed by a hymn by the pupils of the Golds boro Graded School; and the Ch ef Marshal, Dr. Cobb, then, with a fervent reference to the sacred ness of the day and the earnest work of the Daughters of the Confederacy end the women of the South, in keeping green and sacred the memories of the Lost Cause, presented the orator of the occasion, Mr. Jos. E. Robinson, editor of the Goldsboko Argus, who spoke as follows: DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY: VET ERANS OF THE GBET: MEMBEES OF - THE GOLDSBGBO RIFLES: TEACHEBS AND PUPILS OF THE GOLDSBOKO GBADED SCHOOL: LADIES AND GEN TLEMEN: The subject on which I have been requested to address you upon this Memorial occasion is The Private Confederate Soldier he grandest specimen of neroic, nonest, persever ing mannooa tne worm nas ever known; and 'tiU the last syllable of recorded tune the eyes of no future generations will ever look upon this like bgam. - True the banner under which we fought so valiantly that it waved in victory over almost every field o; conflict is forever furled; and the cause in which he suffered and bled and died is forever lost, yet no less forever is his untarnished honor and his unexampled heroism secure on the golden pages of the tear washed chapters in Glory's grim story of Fame. And so long as History en dures, so long as that silent sent nel shall look with changeless eye to the rising sun, so long should the speci men of manhood which he represents be the proudest boast of this South land of ours. And so long asTthe motherhod of the South shall emu late the motherhood that produced the Confederate Soldier, so long need we have no fear that our pres tige will be great and glorious and safe. For behind the Confederate Soldier in the field was the Confed erate Womanhood at home, and these were of mould as. heroic as their brave sons and husbands and sweethearts at the front. The maid who hinds her warrior's sash. With smile that well her pain dissembles, The while beneath her drooping lash One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles, . Though heaven alone records the tear, And Fame shall never know her story, Her heart has shed a drop as dear, As e'er bedewed the field of glory. The wife who girds her husband's sword 'Mid little ones who weep and wonder . And bravely speaks the cheering word, What though her heart be rent asunder, Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear The bolts of death around him rattle, Has shed as sacred blood as e'er Was poured upon the field of battle. The mother who conceals her grief While to her breast her son she presses, Then bieataes a few brave' words and brief. Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God To know the paia that weighs upon her. Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod Received on Freedom's field of honor. So patriot blood does hot come alone from hearts that bleed on the firing line. Surely "if there be a boon an offering that heaven holds dear, it is the laht libation that liberty draws from a heart that breaks and. bleeds in her cause." Indeed the soul that sorest suffers from martial strief hears the thunder of the guns not at all save only in dreams, cv when the tears of brave fears fall astest. Upon the field of battle, amidst the flush of victory, perhaps, and the shouts of triumph, ended human suf fering for many a brave Confederate Soldier; but the deadening grief Of devoted women upon many a hill side, in many a low green valley, was thereby deepened, and the interven ing years have not given surcease of sorrow. The soldier rests, his war fare over, but woman weeps on and is not conforted; for pride in -valorous deeds of her dead never yet healed the mother's bruised spirit of devotion. The Spartan women gave the ebon hair of their heads to make strings for the battle-bows of their warriors. and spoke tearless farewells when the brave marched away, but thous aods of hearts broke when Leonidas fell, and woman's tears might have washed with holy waves the pass of Thermopylae. When the noble Southern mother stroked the head of her precious boy and pressed his throbbing heart to her own a-hmg br ast she offered him a sacrifice to God and her coun try; but the 'sacrifice brought not surcease of anxiety, nor sootfied the mother's pain, nor stilled the yearn ing voice of the mother's love. Idle to tell her of her boy's undaunted bravery on the field of battle; idle to remind her of his imperishable deeds of valor, of his heroic death, and of his Country undying gratitude; idle" to point her to his commandant s report to the name of her boy on the Roll of Honor. Proud she would be with the pride of the -mother of such a son, but stricken still with grief the grief of the mother of the dearest dead. And the Southern if e, who brave ly packed her husband's knap-sack amid little ones who wept and won dered, and kissed him last good bye, assuming burdens too heavy for her to bear how heavy and how she bore them God alone knows what shall I say ol her? It is not in the power of language to pay her tribute! Her record lives in the hearts of all brave men, and the heart of a brave man never forgets. But the record of grief for the Private Confederate Soldier slain does not stop here. What of the matchless Southern Maiden, clinging to the gate of her sequestered South ern home and consecrating it with her tears as she lovingly looks oh the vanishing figure of her soldier lover, erect, reliant, brave, the pain of parting struggling with his hope and his pride and his heroism for his country's cause the little gate and the sweet face of the little sweet heart strangely blending with scenes of battle the charge, the rout, the Victory! ! Under the soldier's jacket the heart beats less heavily than the heart of the maiden above the closed gate closed to shut out joy and bid defiance to hope! By and by, comes a story of car nage, and anxiety deep ad un fathomable claims the heart of the brave maiden at home. Other stories follow fast nnd follow faster, and day on day brings the commarder's roll of the fallen. Hope's voice sinks to a low whisper; Life is chilled in finitely! At length, in the calm of the Sabbath morning, perchance, there comes the roll of all rolls. Each name is hurriedly skanned, and the cry is no no no no on down the long roster of the eternally resting valliant: Nay! not so! ! Near the end is a name that burns and sears as by fire! Heart strings are clutched as by a vice of steel! A loved life has gone out under the Bonnie Blue Flag where the fight raged fiercest. The end of hope is come. The bur den bends lower still on the brave at home. After awhile, there comes through circuitous hands to the stricken maiden a poor little parcel a Bible, a picture and some blossoms given fresh-plucked atthe gate, now faded brown. These memorials of a sleep ing soldier take their place with a woman's dearest treasures. And the years roll on! - From such homes and from such hea'ts went forth the Private Con federate Soldier -from homes of luxury and from humble hamlet alike to battle, to exquisite suffer ing through avenues of sickness and mental anguish in prisons and on carnage fields, and to death: Nay, not to death! for to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die! And love and reverence for the Confederate Soldier will live in Southern hearts forever. It is Jike an inspiration, therefore, that the figure which surmounts this Memo rial mound is that of a Private Con federate Soldier. It stands an object lesson to the passing "generations through all the coming time, and on each recurring Memorial day, as the people gather here with the children of the community, to pay the tribute of public honor to the memory of the Confederate Dead, monument and memorial will be intermingled and merged into the minds of the young as em blematic of a great principle which all men revere the heroic principle, without which no people can ever become truly great. Let the young garner here, through this object les son that monument, these ceremo nies, this great outpouring of the people and let them be taught by the fireside at home, what it all means. And as they come to gaze on that statue, its graceful pose, its reliant attitude, its steady eye and firm countenance, let them be trained to measure up to the standard of manhood for which it stands a manhood of engaging grace, in chiv alry that was ever tempered with I dignity, in piety that gave endur ance. in the cLarity that boasted not. I in the honor held above life, in the i - a i i --I i i - ueroism mat neuuer paieu iu me face of peril nor cringed in defeat, in the frankness and heartiness and wholesome comradeship that won the heart of tho world, and in the rev erence paid to womanhood that nas not been e quailed since' first the world began. Teach them these things, and they will hold their her itage of blood from the men whose fate was defeat and poverty at Ap pomattox more priceless than rich acres and garnered wealth! ! ! After the address, the decora tions of tho Confederate mound with contribute! flowers was in- lged in, n I eo generous were the offerings that the whole mound was a floral emimnce, breathing the perfume of nature's sweetest tribute the breath of flowers to the memory of the Her6e3 eight hundred of whom sleep be neath the perpetual watch of the silent sentinel who guards their last resting place. The usual salutes were fired by the military, as the great crowd slowly and reverently dispersed. Vo'canic Eruptions Are grand, but Skin Eruptions rob life of iov. Bucklen's Ar nica Salve, cures them; also Old, Runniner and Fever Sores, Ul cers, Boils, Felons, Corns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises Burns, Scalds, Chapped hands, Chilblains. Best Pile cure on earth, . Drives out Pains and Aches. Only 25 cts a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by J. H. Hill and Son, Druggist. Havana's loafers who kiss the American flag should be taught the vigor that lies hidden in its folds. CENTRAL COMMITTEE Chosen by the State Committee Last Night. A Candlaate Will Be Nominated for Judge In the Twelfth District: Mr.Ajcock Was Present. RVeigh News & Observer, May 11 . The Democratic State executive committee met last night at 8 o'clock in the Senate chamber and was in session till midnight. There were present in person and by proxy twenty-eight out of the thirty-six members of the committee. Chairman Simmons presided and Mr. P. M. Pearsall was secretary. Committeeman Duncan Mc- Eachen resigned and Editor W. Barnard, of the Wilmington Star, was elected to succeed him. A central committee was choeeo, composed of the following mem bers: Cyrus B. Watson, Winston, Thos. J. Jar vis, Greenville, Theo. F. Davidson, Asheville, J as. H. Pou, Raleigh, J. H. Weddingtoo, Charlotte, E. J. "Hale. Fayette ville, J, S. Carr, Durhpm, E. C. Smith,, Raleigh, J. S. Cuning ham, Cuoingbam, Geo. Warbur ton, Rockingham, F. A. Woodo ard, "Wilson, Claudius E. Foy, Newbern, Jas. A. Lockhart, Wadesboro, R. L. Holt, Burling, ton, C. C. Lyon, Eiizabethtown, R. J. BreVard, Charlotte, Frank S. Spruill, Xou'&burg, Chas. M. Busbee, Raleigh, W. R. Allen, Goldsboro, R R. Cotten, Falk land, S. S. Holt. Smithfield, W. B. Rodman, Washington, O. H. GuioD, Newbern, M. H. Justice, Rutherfordton, E. F. Lamb, Elizabeth City, S. A. Ashe, Ra leigh, H. A. London, Pittsboro, A. W. Haywood, BurlingtoD, N. B. Broughtoo, Raleigb, Dr. 1. E. Green, Weldon, Jco. R. Web ster, Rfcidsville, Wm. M. Webb, Morehead City. It was decided to nominate a candidate for judge in the Twelfth Judicial district, to succeed Nor wood. Judge Moore was elected by the Leg'slature to succeed him but some question having been raised as to the lmgth of bis term by fruch election, it was deemed best to nominate a candidate to be regularly voted for at this elec tion. Each county in the district wVl at iis ct mention express its choice and the committee will then declare him the nominee of the party. 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Sioux Falls, S D., May 10. The National Populist Conven tion concluded its session at 1 o'clock this morning and ad journed sine die after nominat ing the Hon. William Jennings Bryan for President and Hon, Charles A. Towne for Vice Pres ident The nomination of Mr. Towne was only accomplished after a struggle of several hours duration in which an effort was made to have the question of the nomination of a Vice President ial candidate referred to a com mittee to confer with the Demo cratic and Silver Rapublican par ties in their national conventions. A moticn to this effect was de feated by a vote of 268 to 492. Both candidates were nominat ed by acclamation. Instructed tor Bryan. Chicago, May 9. The Demo cratic national committee is confia dent that 800 of the 935 dele gates to the Kansas City Convent tion will be instructed to' vote for " the nomination of William J. Bryan. This does not mean that the others will be opposed to Bryan, but simply not instructed to vote for bim. A two-thirds vote is necessay to nominate. But few district conventions have been held and they have been practical- " ly a unit for Bryan. Thus far 234 delegates have been instructed for Bryan as follows: Alabama (at large), 4; District of Columbia, 6; Iowa, 26; Massa chusetts, 30; Michigan, 28; Ne braska, 16; New Hampshire, 8 New Mexico, 6; Ncrth Carolina 22; Ohio, 2; Oregon, 8; Pennsyl -vania, 64; Rhode Island, 8; Utah, 6; Total, 234. In Alabama the State conven tion instructed only tha delegates at large. - The Strike is Now Off Salisbury Truth-Index, May 9. The strike of the Southern Railway telegraphers is off. Mr, J. A. Brandon, organizer, of. forces, who has been in Salis bury for the past three weeks keeping the lines of strikers in tact, left yesterday for Greens boro, where he first took up headquarters. In a statement to the Order President Powell reviews the strike and the causes leading up to it and calls it off. 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